ジョン・スタンメイヤーさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ジョン・スタンメイヤーInstagram)「“God made my house.” We had become lost along small roads that weave in various ways along the Sutlej River when I met Chinda Singh. He wore a meter long sword in a sash tethered to his waist and a most saffron-colored turban when I first saw him walking to a small chai stall, the only business we’d seen for a mighty long time, plopped in the middle of nowhere right behind what seemed to be Chinda’s home. While polite, at first, he wasn’t very welcoming. A private type, he didn’t understand why someone from far away found him so fascinating. Suppose the trouble is, everyone is. With Mr Singh, I knew it would take time and that we had. Many milky sweet cups of chai I sipped at an uneven red plastic table a few steps from his tent-like home, he became curious about me. So began a long evening together by one of the more polluted rivers in north India. Not a sad man, his story was painful to absorb. It seemed years ago, further back than the 75-year-old could remember, his family rejected him from home in a nearby village and God, he said, built this one using old bricks and a plastic tarp. Only a cot within, a small dresser, this was all Singh had. When night came, he asked if we could go that he might listen to spiritual prayers, somehow broadcasted on his old mobile phone. I thanked him, and as I walked to the shop for one more chai, this is where I last saw Chinda Singh, sitting on a red plastic chair glued to his phone under a lightbulb, listening and praying. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ India’s Daunting Challenge: There’s Water Everywhere, And Nowhere - Chapter 8 of the @outofedenwalk, my latest story last months (August 2020) issue of @natgeo magazine. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #lightbulb #portrait #house #night #sutlej #river #portrait #punjab #india @natgeo @outofedenwalk #walkingindia #edenwalk」9月6日 13時40分